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Re: Nvidia drivers



I get this happening
Hawaiian:/home/ja# aptitude install nvidia-kernel-dkms
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.

so not really sure where to go from here.
Jim

On 18/04/11 11:43, Erwan David wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:29:26PM CEST, James Allsopp <jamesaallsopp@googlemail.com> said:
>> Hi,
>> Not really sure how I should move from here. I want the proprietary
>> nvidia drivers as I want to have compiz and use CUDA, so if someone can
>> point me in the direction of the best way to achieve this I would be
>> very grateful.
>>
>> Also I find the whole kernel situation in Debian quite confusing as
>> opposed to Gentoo (my other system) where you just install you're own
>> kernel, compile it and then install the modules. Any advice on
>> recommended documents I should be reading?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> James
> 
> Did you try the nvidia-kernel-dkms package ?  It will compile and
> install the nvidia driver against installed kernels and reinstall it
> when you upgrade kernel.
> 
> 


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